Yes and yes. I was exagerating to make a point and the tradeoff is control. However, unless you run a datacenter with a fat connection, you also give control to

Yes and yes. I was exagerating to make a point and the tradeoff is control. However, unless you run a datacenter with a fat connection, you also give control to your vps/cloud providers. Now, if by control you mean having 'readable' logic exposed on the client, that is also true, but some services like parse.com offer cloud code.